The following obituary from a newspaper cutting (1935) is included in the familypapers now in the possession of Rev. JOHN MARTIN. MR L F EVEREST DEAD : PEAK NAMED AFTER FATHER

Mr LANCELOT FIELDING EVEREST, eldest son and last lineal decendant of themilitary engineer after whom Mount Everest was named, has died at Hampstead in his 82nd year.

Mr EVEREST, a barrister, was a boy of 13 when his father Col. Sir GEORGE EVEREST died in 1866.Sir George entered the service of the East India Company and as a cadet of 16 sailed for India, eventually to become Surveyor-General there.

In the course of long and very arduous surveys he measured the height of 'JOMO KANG-KAH' (Our Lady of the Snows) but he did not actually give his own name to it.That title was adopted as a tribute to Sir Georges great work, by his successor Col. WAUGH afterwards Major General Sir ANDREW WAUGH).

1841....Census for St. Annes Street, Liverpool (559-33) Of This county GEORGE JAMES EVEREST 35 Ind and Surgeon No ANN EVEREST 55 Ind No HESTER EVEREST 40 Ind No ELLEN CAUNCE 30 FS No ELLEN JONES 30 FS No ANN HEYS 70 Ind No

1825....WILLIAM TRISTRAM EVEREST, a solicitor, son of JOHN & SUSANNAH EVEREST passed away.

GEORGE JAMES EVEREST, son ofJOHN COLE and HANNAH EVEREST became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS).

1823....GEORGE EVEREST, son of WILLIAM TRISTRAM & LUCETTA EVEREST was appointed Surveyor - General of India.

1822....GEORGE JAMES EVEREST, son ofJOHN COLE and HANNAH EVEREST became a medical doctor (EDIN 1822).

1820....JOHN COLE EVEREST, son of JOHN & SUSANNAH EVEREST passed away 2nd May at High Leigh, Cheshire.

JOHN EVEREST, son of WILLIAM TRISTRAM & LUCETTA EVEREST passed away.

1819....SUSAN EVEREST of this Parish married WILLIAM McKEE of Liverpool at St. Mary's church, Rotherne, Cheshire.Witnesses JOHN COLE EVEREST, and GEORGE JAMES EVEREST.

1815....CHARLES EVEREUX EVEREST, son ofJOHN COLE and HANNAH EVEREST a surgeon, became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS).

1802....CHARLES EVEREST son of WILLIAM TRISTRAM & LUCETTA EVEREST was born. 1801....SUSAN EVEREST, daughter of JOHN COLE & HANNAH EVEREST (nee FITZGERALD) was born in Chester 6th February

1800....THOMAS ROUPELL EVEREST son of WILLIAM TRISTRAM & LUCETTA EVEREST was born.

1798....GEORGE EVEREST, son of JOHN & SUSANNAH EVEREST passed away aged 48 years, leaving a large family whose ages ranged from 2 to 22.

ROBERT EVEREST, son of WILLIAM TRISTRAM & LUCETTA EVEREST was born.

1797....ANN EVEREST (nee BENTHAM), wife of GEORGE EVEREST, son of JOHN & SUSANNAH EVEREST passed away.

1795....GEORGE JAMES EVEREST, son ofJOHN COLE and HANNAH EVEREST was born.

1791....GEORGE EVEREST, son of WILLIAM TRISTRAM & LUCETTA EVEREST was baptised at St. Alphege parish church in Greenwich (where the family lived)on the 27th January.

1790....GEORGE EVEREST, son of WILLIAM TRISTRAM & LUCETTA EVEREST was born at Gwernvale, Brecknockshire on the 4th July. Extract from 'A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF BRECKNOCK' by THEOPHILUS JONES vol 3, page 136.

NOTE Gwernvale was purchased by Mr EVEREST, who built the present elagant mansion in which he resided the greatest part of the year.

Gwernvale is just outside Crickhowell and was a few years ago (6th May 1970) converted into 'The Manor Club'.

CHARLES EVEREUX EVEREST, son ofJOHN COLE and HANNAH EVEREST was born.

1788....HENRY BENNETT EVEREST, son of JOHN COLE and HANNAH EVEREST was baptisted 16th Mayat St. Lawrences parish church, Frodsham, Chester.

1786....WILLIAM TRISTRAM EVEREST, son of JOHN & SUSANNAH EVEREST married LUCETTA MARY SMITH.

ESTER EVEREST, daughter of JOHN COLE and HANNAH EVEREST was baptisted 12th March at St. Lawrences parish church, Frodsham, Chester. The register also reads born on the 27th ????? (Roscoe).The month was indecipherable and what Roscoe meant we have no idea.

1777....ANNE EVEREST, daughter of JOHN COLE and HANNAH EVEREST was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia.